Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Judge John Slaughter Candler, 80, last of Georgia's famed Candler (Coca-Cola) brothers; in Atlanta. Best-known of the family were Methodist Bishop Warren A., Coca-Cola King Asa G. Judge John retired from Georgia's Supreme Court bench...
Just 19 months after the Methodist Church, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, had gone on record that it would never "officially support, endorse or participate in war." its bishops met in Georgia last week, declared: "There can be no peace in the world until totalitarian threat against the liberties of all freedom-loving people is thoroughly eradicated. Our duty, as American citizens, is clear....The Methodists of America will loyally support our President and our nation...
...Methodist shift was paralleled in other churches-and the declaration of war found the clergy even stronger in their support than they were in 1917. This united sentiment was attested by the official heads of each major Protestant denomination in replying unofficially to a questionnaire from TIME. Significantly, however, not one of them directly answered TIME'S question as to whether most ministers feel America is fighting for the cause of righteousness-i.e., whether they were likely to preach a holy war. Apparently the clergy have not forgotten how they got their fingers burned after World...
...That Which," "Ah God" are all painted by cheerful little grey-haired Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who works happily in the husk of an abandoned Methodist Church in Warrenville, Ill., an hour's drive outside Chicago. All three pictures have a microscopic detail that is more real than real life, a funereal rose and lavender cast, all are of subjects which look worn and battered by eternity...
This is especially true in the case of news from the Methodist Church which has been, so far as I can remember, without important error in any particular. This is unusual, and deeply appreciated...